This is from Join Rudy. Again, I make no apologies for being a supporter of Rudy Giuliani for President. I feel he is by far superior to anyone the GOP can field in the race, and is the only candidate that the GOP can put up with a reasonable chance of having broad appeal. While detractors from the right would say that Mr. Giuliani is a liberal – as if that is the worst thing in the world, if you look at his stated positions and his actions as an executive leader of a major city, the smear just doesn’t stick.

Fiscal Discipline

Before Rudy was elected Mayor, tax-and-spend policies created billion-dollar deficits and led to the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs in New York City. Rudy restored fiscal discipline by controlling spending and cutting wasteful programs. He cut the size of city-funded government bureaucracy by nearly 20% – excluding the number of cops on the street and teachers in the classroom. Rudy’s record proves he can deliver results and return fiscal discipline to the federal government.

Cutting Taxes

Rudy is the real fiscal conservative in the race. He cut taxes 23 times in New York and turned a $2.3 billion budget deficit into a multi-billion dollar surplus, while balancing the city’s budget. Because he turned his conservative principles into action, New York City taxpayers saved more than $9 billion in taxes and enjoyed their lowest tax burden in decades, while the economy grew and city government saw its revenues increase from the lower tax rates. Rudy Giuliani believes in supply-side economics, because he did it and he saw it work.

Winning the War on Terror

Rudy Giuliani believes winning the war on terror is the great responsibility of our generation. America cannot afford to go back to the days of playing defense, with inconsistent responses to terrorist attacks, because weakness only encourages aggression. Americans want peace. We’re at war not because we want to be, but because the terrorists declared war on us – well before the attacks of September 11th. Rudy understands that freedom is going to win this war of ideas. America will win the war on terror.

Iraq

Like all Americans, Rudy Giuliani prays for the success of our troops in Iraq and their safe return home. But he believes setting an artificial timetable for withdrawal from Iraq now would be a terrible mistake, because it would only embolden our enemies. Iraq is only one front in the larger war on terror, and failure there would lead to a broader and bloodier regional conflict in the near future. Building an accountable
Iraq will assist in reducing the threat of terrorism.

Public Safety

Before Rudy became Mayor, New York City was averaging close to 2,000 murders a year and more than 11,000 major crimes per week. He put more cops on the street and more criminals in jail. He cut crime in half and reduced murders by two-thirds. He improved response times in the Fire Department and created the Office of Emergency Management. Rudy improved the quality of life for all citizens and turned New York into the safest large city in America, according to FBI crime statistics.

Judges

Rudy Giuliani served as the third highest ranking official in Ronald Reagan’s Justice Department, worked as a US Attorney, and argued cases before the Supreme Court. He understands the responsibility the President has to appoint and nominate federal judges. The kind of judges he has said he would appoint are strict constructionists like Justices Scalia, Roberts and Alito – principled individuals who can be trusted to respect the Constitution as it is written, rather than attempting to legislate from the bench.

Education

As Mayor, Rudy Giuliani worked to reform the nation’s largest public school system, with over 1 million school children. He increased school funding and hired new teachers, while insisting on reforms that ended social promotion, abolished principal tenure, and created a Charter School Fund. Rudy is also a strong supporter of school choice, believing that it is one of the great civil rights issues of our time.

Abortion

Rudy Giuliani supports reasonable restrictions on abortion such as parental notification with a judicial bypass and a ban on partial birth abortion – except when the life of the mother is at stake. He’s proud that adoptions increased 66% while abortions decreased over 16% in New York City when he was Mayor. But Rudy understands that this is a deeply personal moral dilemma, and people of good conscience can disagree respectfully. Ultimately he believes that it is a decision between a woman, her doctor, her family, and her God.

Second Amendment

Rudy Giuliani is a strong supporter of the Second Amendment. When he was Mayor of a city suffering an average of almost 2000 murders a year, he protected people by getting illegal handguns out of the hands of criminals. As a result, shootings fell by 72% and the murder rate was cut by two-thirds. But Rudy understands that what works in New York doesn’t necessarily work in Mississippi or
Montana.

Marriage

Rudy Giuliani believes marriage is between a man and a woman. He does not – and has never – supported gay marriage. But he believes in equal rights under law for all Americans. That’s why he supports domestic partnerships that provide stability for committed partners in important legal and personal matters, while preserving the sanctity of marriage between a man and a woman.

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Rudy Giuliani is a strong supporter of the Second Amendment. When he was Mayor of a city suffering an average of almost 2000 murders a year, he protected people by getting illegal handguns out of the hands of criminals. As a result, shootings fell by 72% and the murder rate was cut by two-thirds. But Rudy understands that what works in New York doesn’t necessarily work in Mississippi or Montana.

I have to give it to Rudy. He doesn’t back down. The thing that “scares” 2nd amendment advocates is that he might sign anti-gun friendly law especially if the Dems keep control of the senate and the house.

There is no way he’ll take away guns from people for purposes other than commiting crimes. From the rabid Right you would think that Rudy is a Stalinist, he’s not.

I don’t think that Rudy will take away all guns. I just think that he will go alone with banning some guns. I wish that instead of banning these weapons someone would just say that they would support tougher sentences for criminals that commit crimes with weapons.

I have a love/hate relationship with Rudy. I know that he supports some things that I don’t like, but when I hear him talk he always pulls me closer to his side. It takes me a while to “shake him off” because he is so captivating.

voice, am I on the rabid right? It seems that most of my opinions line up with your thoughts of the rabid right.

Except for Rudy being Stalinist.

Remember though that it’s one thing to promise on the campaign trail, it’s another to deliver once in office. I do not think he will take away guns, though Hillary would be likely to. I will say that he is probably the only one of the Big Republican Three that I would even consider voting for.

Thanks for this post, there was some information on the issues that I was not sure about that you clarified for me. I have been thinking about voting for one of the second teir candidates in the primary, but Rudi is who I would vote for out of the big three.
He has my vote over anyone on the Democrat’s side.